Enterprise Angels offers a unique model of early stage investing in New Zealand connecting early stage companies with business angels to maximise success. We believe that growing innovative, socially and environmentally responsible companies is the key to ensuring people, communities, businesses, the environment, and the economy thrive. Enterprise Angels has a professional management team, efficient processes and rigorous due diligence to mitigate investor risk. We consider our model as ‘best practice’ for investing in early stage companies, which is inherently risky. While investment funds are always important, we regard the skills and experience our management team and business angels bring to the investee companies as being even more important. Through our team, members and partners we aim to add real value as well as capital to portfolio companies. Enterprise Angels members make individual investment decisions but do so together drawing on each other’s experience and expertise. This approach increases the returns from and success of investments. Our objective is to connect experienced investors with entrepreneurs and innovators. Enterprise Angels members will consider investing in businesses from all industry sectors and at any stage of growth, from seed to post-revenue. However we invest most actively in things we can ‘kick’ – innovative businesses in the agriculture, dairy, horticulture, engineering, food and clean tech industries. The experience we can draw from our member pool is vast and crucial in helping many early stage businesses and concepts grow to their full potential. Enterprise Angels is a member of the Angel Association of New Zealand (AANZ), a network of more than a dozen angel groups and funds throughout the country.
